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As time draws closer towards the jail release of her violent husband, Kifaya Ayati, a resident of Acre, who has been brutally attacked several times, is looking for a way to survive. She paints women who have been abused and murdered by their spouses and meets their sisters, mothers and daughters. Every meeting becomes a portrait of a murdered woman and an indictment against Israeli society, the police and the courts.

Festivals and Awards:

Best Documentary Film Award - Haifa International Film Festiva, Israel, 2021

Director: Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky

Producer: Yael Kipper

Cinematographer: Ronen Zaretzky

Editor: Tor Ben Mayor

Soundtrack Editor: Rotem Dror

Original Soundtrack: Shiran Karni, Regev Baruch

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, KAN 11 - Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Makan 33, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Galil Cinema Project

Script: Ronen Zaretzky, Yael Kipper, Kafaya Ayiti

Subtitles: Hebrew, English

Film Name in Hebrew: דיוקן

As time draws closer towards the jail release of her violent husband, Kifaya Ayati, a resident of Acre, who has been brutally attacked several times, is looking for a way to survive. She paints women who have been abused and murdered by their spouses and meets their sisters, mothers and daughters. Every meeting becomes a portrait of a murdered woman and an indictment against Israeli society, the police and the courts.

Festivals and Awards:

Best Documentary Film Award - Haifa International Film Festiva, Israel, 2021

 
Portrait

Director: Yael Kipper, Ronen Zaretzky

Producer: Yael Kipper

Cinematographer: Ronen Zaretzky

Editor: Tor Ben Mayor

Soundtrack Editor: Rotem Dror

Original Soundtrack: Shiran Karni, Regev Baruch

Supporter(s): The New Fund for Cinema and Television, KAN 11 - Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation, Makan 33, The Yehoshua Rabinovich Foundation for the Arts Galil Cinema Project

Script: Ronen Zaretzky, Yael Kipper, Kafaya Ayiti

Subtitles: Hebrew, English

Film Name in Hebrew: דיוקן

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